Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol
Andy Warholwas an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth6 August 1928
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
crazy sitting want
...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.
crazy past care
If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.
photography crazy buttons
All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.
reason someplace wore
Fashion, ... wasn't what you wore someplace anymore. It was the whole reason for going.
instead knew living shot suspected tv watching
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
brand expect jeans
You expect them to keep up. With a brand like Levi's, you are the jeans of the world.
cast parts portrayed
many in the cast portrayed their parts as if in a stupor from marijuana, drugs or alcohol.
famous future
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
life movies people
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.
everybody terrific
I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.
beauty
I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.
american-artist art best business good money
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
bored came everybody famous fifteen finally future line minutes prediction sixties
It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.